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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1934
Page
2
Barnard College presents a health and fitness study of the Class of 1937. Seniors earned exemptions from physical education tests while data show good health, high attendance, strong grips, and varied activities. The report notes average age around 17, with swimming and reading among top hobbies and a strong inclination toward physical education.
The Drama League Travel Bureau offers six weeks tuition scholarships for the summer session at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Eligible are students of theatre and drama teachers. applications and blanks are available at the League's Hotel Barbizon Plaza headquarters in New York.
Smith College will host the Connecticut Valley Inter collegiate Anti War Conference in Northampton over the weekend of February 24. Delegates from sixteen colleges will attend, with public participation. William Allan Nielson will give the opting address, joined by Mary E. Woolley and Jessie Hughan, among others. The event targets a united student front against war, featuring reports on militarism in schools and anti war activities.
In an English class at Oklahoma A and M College students are fined one cent for each misspelled word. The collected fines fund an annual class banquet.
The Wycliffe Club will discuss Observance of Lent at four in the Chapel Crypt. Ruth Olson resigns as secretary after serving this year. Tea will be served. Monday a club photograph will be taken for Mortarboard.
ISU offers a four week Summer School on Wheels next July with credit for the course. The tour includes a visit to major cropping and livestock systems in the United States. It covers management on ranches in the Great Plains and highlights visits to southern rice and sugar plantations and study of tropical vegetation in Mexico.
The McGill Daily notes 1.5 million American graduates in 1933 with only 15 percent employed, while Canada graduates one in a thousand and the US far ahead. The Canadian editor questions liberal American education and favors a more conservative stance on education advised by his side of the line. Oklahoma O'Collegian
Columbia Writers' Club hears Barrett Clark argue against Broadway as the end all for playwrights. Alfred Kreymborg adds that every writer aims for an audience, usually Broadway, and notes American playwrights lag behind peers in other writing fields. John C. Flynn to speak February 28 on the NRA code for writers.
Bucknell’s Student-Faculty Congress passes a rule requiring proposed legislation to be sent to a committee before a vote. The move aims to curb impulsive on floor motions and reduce poorly worded proposals that cause confusion.
NSFA McGill University students turnout for ping-pong matches has prompted the school to erect a special bleacher section to accommodate the crowds.
Dr. Ross MacFarland, Columbia professor, spoke to psychology majors on Tuesday February 20 revealing experiments on oxygen and psychological balance. He linked physiological balance loss to mental balance and noted applications in aviation and mountain climbing. Attendees included Dr. Anastasi, Dr. Seward, Miss Markey, and Miss Giesey.
About thirty five tons of coal are used daily at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and eighty gallons of water per person daily. The institute employs about one thousand staff for twenty six hundred students.
Two professors from Teachers College Columbia University report that 58 percent of American school children view foreigners as less intelligent, with over a third fearing a foreign attack within a year. Half oppose leading arms reduction, 46 percent favor army training for boys, and 71 percent want military statues in parks. The study notes little awareness of world peace agencies.
Hollins College marks Founder’s Day February 21 with the formal inauguration of Dr. Bessie Carter Randolph as president. The event features remarks by Henry N. MacCracken of Vassar, an afternoon Nutcracker Suite by students, and a dinner address by Sarah Wambaugh on The Lost Peace.
The list notes a freshmen prom on February 24 amid decorations and music by Art Canary’s band. At 4:00 pm Professor Frank Gardner Moore of Columbia discusses recent archeological Rome discoveries. A 4:15 pm to 6:00 pm music club musicale features instrumentalists and vocalists with excerpts from the Stabat Mater.
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